Czecklish: Difference between revisions

'''Czecklish''' (''Čeklis'' [tɕɛkˈlis]) is a constructed, a priori and naturalistic language from the Liberec family of languages, descended from the hypothetical Proto-Liberec language. The closest genetic relatives to Czecklish are Görlitzisch (260,108 speakers) and Opole (455,752 speakers). Czecklish is spoken in the Czech districts of Ústí Nad Lebem and Liberec; the Polish district of Lower Silesia; and the German district of Sächsische Scheweiz-Osterzgebirge. There is a small population of Czecklish speakers in the French départment of Alpes-Maritimes. The total number of native speakers is 5,510,000, as of 2010. Czecklish is heavily influenced by the West Slavic and Romance language families. The greatest substrata are Czech, Polish and Italian. Despite being in the very midst of the Standard Average European Sprachbund, Czecklish morphology is definitively non-Indo-European. Czecklish is an agglunitative, polysynthetic and noun-incorporating language. As such, it's verb conjugation and noun declension is (over)complicated and difficult. A unique characteristic of Czecklish morphology is that it utilizes polyexponential formatives to encode multiple grammatical categories. That is to say, one bound morpheme can be used to express different grammatical categories simultaneously. These morphemes, which serve as function words, are known as screeves in Czecklish linguistics. Like Georgian screeves, Czecklish screeves are a number of combinations that indicate person, number and TAM categories. Contrastive to the Georgian screeve, though, screeve endings in Czecklish encode all TAM categories - Tense, Mood and Voice. Czecklish is also unusual in that adjectives and adverbs are completely absent, being replaced with auxiliary participles and attibutive verbs.<br />

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